Gourlay Coat of Arms, Crest and Name Facts

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Gourlay, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms.

Gourlay by the numbers

Here is a quick, sourced look at the Gourlay surname.

We don't publish a meaning for Gourlay without a reliable source. Our researchers work it out from the records of each family. Local archives often hold baptisms and marriages that never reached online indexes. The 2010 census count for Gourlay in the United States was 682, good for rank 33,450. 1,467 people born in France between 1891 and 2000 carried the Gourlay name at birth.

Get the complete Gourlay report, with a museum-style coat of arms.